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Stacking the Shelves #2

I know I said I wasn’t planning on buying any more books this week. I know I said it would be a small haul, if any. But I didn’t plan on hitting the shops with my Mum and her deciding that she would treat me. I also didn’t plan on finding a couple of really good deals like Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion for £1, or The Maze Runner by James Dashner for £4. Deals happen.

So here is the additions to my TBR shelf this week:

Warm Bodies by Isaac MarionFrom: Asda (£1)‘R’ is a zombie. He has no name, no memories and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows – warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can’t understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins.This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won’t be changed without a fight…I have read this before, and seen the movie. I love it and I am so excited to own and re-read it.

Starcrossed/Dreamless by Josephine Angelini

(Books 1/2 Starcrossed Trilogy)

From: Gift from MumHelen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it’s getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she’s haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they’re destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.

I have read both of these before, but it was long ago. I remember loving them so I am happy to finally own them. Now I just need Goddess to complete the set.

Maze Runner by James Dashner (Not the exact cover, I left it at my Mums)

From: Asda (£4)

If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. Everything is going to change.Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. Remember. Survive. Run

I recently saw the movie for this and immediately wanted to read the book. When I spotted this on the shelf in Asda I squealed so loudly that a lady nearby jumped. Apologies to that lady but I am so happy to have this book.And there is this week. My TBR shelf is ever growing and I am reading as fast as I can.

My Amazon wishlist is also growing fast.What do you think I should add to it?